David, Amanda,sorry it's taken me time to get back to you. The point you picked up in my post is a generalist one. I think I've written before that, had it been down to me, I'd have designed the cycleway differently (on both sides of the road, for starters). But, still, in my books some cycleway is better than no cycleway, especially if it avoids mixing cars and bikes. I'm not too sure that collisions with injury have increased, I haven't seen the data, though as Amanda says we also need to see how many people are travelling by bike these days vs before. I sense however that this particular horse's been flogged to death so I shan't step into this particular minefield.To summarise, my point is that in my opinion not mixing bikes and cars is good for both; right now we're in a particularly painful situation with the works ongoing, and I do agree that CS9 is suffering (together with much of the biking infrastructure in London, I think) with overengineering and questionable design choices. Could've been done better by copying what other countries do, in my humble opinion. Still, I take CS9, and all the other CSs, over the nightmare that is Kensington High Street any day of the week.
Francis Sheehan ● 1636d